Millions who endure poverty and bad government can now know what they are missing. To see how the other half lives all they have to do is switch on their television sets.
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is not going to be tomorrow's leader. Television watching is passive. Reading is active.
Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.
Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.
Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.
I love uplifting television.
If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.
I love mysteries on television – the more psychologically complex the better.
Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.
I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.
The problem with TV today is not just too much sex, violence, profanity, dishonesty or crude behavior. It is too much TV, period.
The television industry claims they are only reflecting society with their programming and have no influence on behavior. If that is the case then why do businesses spend millions on TV ads that have no influence?
I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.
The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.
The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.
Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.
Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.
The book can't compete with the screen. It couldn't compete beginning with the movie screen. It couldn't compete with the television screen and it can't compete with the computer screen I don't think. And now we have all those screens so against all those screens I think the book can't measure up.
There are some very good people in television, but a lot of fools running it.
I think I've got the best staff in television.
After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.
Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.
One of the big things in television these days is there's no main title sequence anymore.
I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.
